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Reply to For the AI's sake, why the heck doesn't this game have *automatic* fleeting in orbit? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

but the fact that you would have to attack more lightly defenders planets would make a difference, if your empire starts getting picked up, you can up your production on key worlds, bunch of your ships, and then focus on directing one or two fleets to defend your space, letting your fleeted ships defend planets, instead of directed a couple of fleets around and checking your borders every turn to see if you have missed an enemy fleet that you need to manually take care of (really, really tiresom

Reply to Is there any way to mod out certain special events? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

you know, that thing has never bugged me before? usually I ignore it and crush the race in a couple of years, or I ally with them

Reply to stupid altarian casus bellii in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I've heard this of this happenin before... I don't think Manipulations would make a race go to war with you with you for a false reason like that... maybe a false reason, but not one that EVERYONE can see is false.

Reply to For the AI's sake, why the heck doesn't this game have *automatic* fleeting in orbit? in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

my support for this motion is hereby added. I understand that it is unrealistic to expect your ships to all be in the same place at the right time when a surprise attack is launched, but even with warp drive it is insanely hard to pull off an effective planetary assault due to gravity wells and such. the defenders would have enough warning to fleet up, and thee invading fleet would not risk going around them for fear of being picked off from above (the absolute space superiority mechani

Reply to HUGE Off-type Defence Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I thought I noticed this in the beta with a pirate mega-event, but soon my ships outclassed their's and I forgot about it... Kryo have we got any comment from our coding geniuses yet? i'm beginning to think this is a real bug and not all in our heads

Reply to Delivery of DA in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I live in the midwest and got my pre-ordered DA only disc about a week ago...

Reply to What is a better game? GalCiv2 or SE5 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I have only played SEIII, but it was way fun, however, the AI was not all that spectacular, and everything I have read about SE V says the same thing. it has AMAZING customization, but the game has gone through 5 iterations and i think over a decade of development... I think when GC III comes out, we'll see even more simplified complexity as we currently do in DA... I mean think about it, DA expanded the tech tree significantly with the implementation of different planet types and mines. What if

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar 1.5X notes in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

w00t!

Reply to GalCiv ll Platform in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

the current WINEX emulator that is best for games is Cedega... my only experience with it was that I got the GCII demo to install, but not play, probably due to the fact that I had an onboard video card, and linux didn't detect the OpenGL support the board claimed to have, So i couldn't get the game to work, if you have a decent video card you might try the demo and see if it will work... and if you don't want to pay for Cedega, I will be happy to send you a copy (their license allows me to dist

Reply to The First War in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

lol just trying to ask the difficulty setting lol! wow, i must have been tired when I read your first post... can't believe I didn't see that

Reply to Upon a Sea of Stars in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

w00t! i have something to add to my watchlist again.... looking forward to it!

Reply to minor and slightly larger bug in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

the missing polygon may just be a corrupt graphic from your install, its been known to happen, take a look at your debug.err or post it here to see if there is any mention in it of a graphic not found, etc. as to the graph... i think I noticed that too... but hey, it doesn't affect anything except the prettiness of the game, so i'm inclined to ignore it

Reply to Best DA race? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I think it comes down to a matter of style personally... I am still trying to figure mine out, right now though I play custom for each map I play... small all vic conditions off (except conquest) i go with a military + research bonus civ, bigger maps dictate different circumstances... is tech trading on or off? if i'm gonna play a predefined race though, it would be the Yor... i've never paid attention to their tech bonuses, but I like the super isolationist... I also like super manipul

Reply to No Available Opponents in Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

If you have MS Word you might try the Compare+Merge function (does Word open XML's? *shrug* if not you could convert them to .txt via notepad, merge them, and then resave as an xml i suppose)

Reply to Population and Morale in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

But when I've read about taxes at 80% with planets at 11B without single morale building, I tried that approach, and will be using it until the game mechanics changes see that is just absurd to me... no population no matter how "entertained" could stand for that kind of universal tax rate, what good is the best entertainment in the universe if I have no money with which to buy it?!

Reply to Well I like everything except the Trade in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think number of trade routes should be relative to the size of galaxy... just an idea

Reply to Just Bought Dark Avatar. Do Not See Any Graphics Improvements in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

what kind of video-card do you have? nvidia 64 meg doesn't help, is it a geforce 2, 3, 4... etc? it if is older it probably doesn't support some of the advanced directx 9 requirements of the game... even though the game will still run, if the card only supports directx 7 or something, you're gonna be shy on some of the eye-candy and here is a silly question, you were playing DA right?

Reply to Imma Noob...How do I play this game with others..online? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Blue... i nearly can guarantee you that you won't miss it... just jack the AI up and see if you do

Reply to Finally a decent upgrade! in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

oh boy... if your mobo is old you might need more money to just completely upgrade your system, sad fact of mobo's i don't have the time to go into it, but it might be worth just waiting a while longer to get more money and then do a complete revamp of your system, as it is not a slacker in any department (as a temp fix you might consider grabbing another half gig of RAM) also if your

Reply to What to Players want? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I believe someone (probably kryo) posted about that sort of tech tree idea, if you were thinking of doing it as a tech that required two others before it. Whoever it was said that it might not work, so if you were to do something like that you might have to pick which tech tree branch you added it too I would like to see the dread-lords be an actual super race as well, though it is hard to tell if this is possible or might unbalance the game just my 2 cents

Reply to my display driver crashes almost right away when trying to play Dark Avatar in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

you might be forced to use the developer version because sometimes laptop manufacturers like to force people to use their driver. I have a dell with a Geforce 7300 Go and I cannot use Nvidia's driver's, I have to use Dell drivers (ANNOYING!) because dell has hardcoded something into it. That might be why the self-installer as a hard time locating your chipset, it might be programmed not to.

Reply to Should Winning Always Be the Goal? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

It sounds to me almost like eyou are describing a bigger, better, more massive version of Majesty. Majesty was an RTS game where all you did was designate which buildings to build and which unit to recruit, after that what they did was up to them! you could offer bounties to slay certain monsters or explore certain areas of the map, but it was quite fun. Unfortunately the AI was not that great, and the missions got old quickly after you beat them. There was going to be a Majesty II, but

Reply to The Great Torian Alliance in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Hmm... Freespace though... (looks longingly at his Saitek X45 sitting in the corner...) http://www.freespacezone.com/ http://www.hard-light.net/ come back to the darkside.... nah J/k. For me freespace is a good stress reliever when I need to pull a trigger instead of clicking a button

Reply to No ship textures. Does my hardware suck? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

EDIT: wow checking dates is a useful thing, my bad, please ignore

Reply to The First War in AARs GalCiv2 Forums

news flash; Local forum readers complained today that they really have no idea as to the level of difficulty involved in running the galactic empire. Rumors have been thrown around suggesting anything from 'cakewalk' to 'masochistic'. wth? Colin: I like your narrative style. keep it up